Working with Emotional Pain: A Jungian Perspective
Friday, February 6, 7:30 pm
at St. George's Church, 4600 St Charles Ave
Lourdes Hernandez, MA, Jungian Analyst
Summary: A central principle of Jungian psychology is that affectivity—our feelings, moods, and attitudes—forms the fundamental basis of personality, rooting who we are in our emotional life. Yet the personality also contains defensive, self-protective mechanisms that compel us to bury emotional pain beneath layers of fear and resistance. Jung argued that “in the intensity of the disturbance itself lies the value, the energy… in order to remedy the state of reduced adaptation” (CW 8:166), suggesting that the medicine is hidden within the wound itself. We will explore how this psychological process can unfold in lived experience and is expressed symbolically in the tale “Girl with the Legacy Necklace.”
Bio: Lourdes Hernandez was marked by the traumas of war and political asylum when her family fled Cuba to take refuge in the United States. She holds post graduate degrees from Pacifica Graduate Institute and Regis University in hermeneutics, counseling, and Jungian and Archetypal Studies. She is a Diplomate Jungian Analyst with the IRSJA and has a bilingual private practice in Boulder, Colorado. She is a lifelong musician and visual artist who values the curative power of the symbolic psyche and its restorative interventions
$20 for general registration (free for members)
$20 for 1.5 CEUs for psychologists, counselors, social workers
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The C. G. Jung Society of New Orleans has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education provider, ACEP No. 5388. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The C. G. Jung Society of New Orleans is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Most programs are approved for Social Work contact hours through Tulane School of Social Work and for LPC clock hours through the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC). The C. G. Jung Sciety of New Orleans has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 5388. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The C. G. Jung Society of New Orleans is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.